The Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India has pursuant to its notification bearing ref. no. G.S.R.1190 (E) dated 30 December 2016 notified the Employees' Provident Funds (Seventh Amendment)...

In the recent ruling of November 20151, the Authority of Advance Ruling ("AAR") has considered an issue of payment of service tax for service provided by an expatriate in India as employee of an Indian company.

The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion ("DIPP") has recently issued a press note ("Press Note"), to extend the initial validity period of an Industrial License ("IL") granted in respect of the Defence Sector in India.

The Government of India has recently issued a Press note to do away with the distinction between different types of foreign investments, especially between foreign portfolio investments and foreign direct investments, and replace them with composite caps.

The Government of India is constantly trying to encourage investments in India. In order to compliment these efforts the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion has recently taken several initiatives to facilitate doing business in India.

With a view to facilitate ease of reporting transactions under the foreign direct investment scheme, the Reserve Bank of India has enabled online filing of the following reports/ forms on the e-biz portal of the Government of India:

The Ministry of Labour & Employment has issued four notifications in August 2014 amending the provisions of the following the schemes framed under Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act...